Focus 2.1 - Identification: Inclusion

Vocabulary

Decent is an acceptable or satisfactory standard.Dignity means being respected for who you are and what you believe in.Esteem is respect and admiration, typically for a person.Full is not lacking or omitting anything; complete.Inclusion is the action or state of including or of being included within a group or structure. Protection is the action of protecting someone or something, or the state of being protected. Rights are entitlements that nobody can take away.Special Needs are persons with mental, emotional, or physical problems that require special settings or education.Strength is the quality or state of being strong, or a good or beneficial quality or attribute of a person or thing.

Purpose - Right to Be Included

In this series of sub-units, the focus is inclusion of all children, including children with special needs. In this sub-unit, children identify who, according to the Convention, has the right to the Convention's rights. They identify that children with special needs are entitled to special protection as outlined in Article 23 of the Convention, and they are to be included whenever possible.

Child Asks: Who as a right to be included?Children's Rights Education enables the child to identify that all children, including those with special needs, have a right to be included. Child Answers: Everyone has a right to be included.

Classroom Learning Activities

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Relevant Convention Articles

Article 1For the purposes of the present Convention, a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.Article 21. States Parties shall respect and ensure the rights set forth in the present Convention to each child within their jurisdiction without discrimination of any kind, irrespective of the child's or his or her parent's or legal guardian's race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, property, disability, birth or other status.2. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the child is protected against all forms of discrimination or punishment on the basis of the status, activities, expressed opinions, or beliefs of the child's parents, legal guardians, or family members.Article 231. States Parties recognize that a mentally or physically disabled child should enjoy a full and decent life, in conditions which ensure dignity, promote self-reliance and facilitate the child's active participation in the community.2. States Parties recognize the right of the disabled child to special care and shall encourage and ensure the extension, subject to available resources, to the eligible child and those responsible for his or her care, of assistance for which application is made and which is appropriate to the child's condition and to the circumstances of the parents or others caring for the child.3. Recognizing the special needs of a disabled child, assistance extended in accordance with paragraph 2 of the present article shall be provided free of charge, whenever possible, taking into account the financial resources of the parents or others caring for the child, and shall be designed to ensure that the disabled child has effective access to and receives education, training, health care services, rehabilitation services, preparation for employment and recreation opportunities in a manner conducive to the child's achieving the fullest possible social integration and individual development, including his or her cultural and spiritual development4. States Parties shall promote, in the spirit of international cooperation, the exchange of appropriate information in the field of preventive health care and of medical, psychological and functional treatment of disabled children, including dissemination of and access to information concerning methods of rehabilitation, education and vocational services, with the aim of enabling States Parties to improve their capabilities and skills and to widen their experience in these areas. In this regard, particular account shall be taken of the needs of developing countries.

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Preamble: Recognizing that children with disabilities should have full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with other children, and recalling obligations to that end undertaken by States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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